April 28, 2016

So today, the world's largest transportation company owns zero fleet, the largest hotelier lists more than a million rooms but owns none of them, and the largest movie service doesn't have a theater to its name. And Alibaba - which was only a local e-commerce provider just a couple of years ago - is not merely repeatedly breaking global sales records, but obliterating them.

What these providers have in common is a winning business model that leverages the collective power of a network or ecosystem to deliver incredible experiences at competitive prices to customers, at scale.